By Marc David Baer
As an expression of his commitment to Islam, Mehmed actively sought to set up his popularity as a convert-maker, convincing or compelling Christian and Jewish matters to be "honored via the distinction of Islam" and Muslims topics to show to Islamic piety. Revising the normal portrayal of a ruler so distracted by means of his ardour for looking that he ignored political beliefs, Baer indicates that Mehmed IV observed conversion as principal to his function as sultan. He strains an ever-widening variety of enforced piety, conversion, and conquest increasing outward from the guts of Mehmed IV's empire.
This account is the 1st to correlate the conversion of individuals and house within the mature Ottoman Empire, to enquire conversion from the point of view of adjusting Ottoman ideology, and to depict the sultan as an interventionist convert-maker. The ensuing insights promise to remodel our understandings of the reign of a forgotten ruler, a principally overlooked interval in Ottoman background, the altering nature of Islam and its heritage in Europe, relatives among Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Europe, the perform of jihad, and non secular structure in city history.
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